Away From Me
I guess this is some heavy work, a great mass of art I made while doing the heavy lifting. The work is finished now, but the heavy lifting is what living feels like, though sometimes it can feel like flying instead. This work is about some hard shit, but it’s really mainly about love.
It is about the desire to tend to and locate something across myself, to tend to something in us.
This body of work tracks its way out of painting, into performance and then video. This body of work anchored me across four studios: it crossed the Nullarbor and came home, it tracked through a heartbreak, five house moves, the messy complexity of care, and a new love. It bore witness to a whole pile of hard and beautiful, and pulled me up by my socks over and over.
This work lodges bridges between the personal and theoretical to understand the collective possibilities in making and performing. These works excavated my body and a collective body’s relationship to gender, performance, care, the closet, sex and death.
It is a series of love letters.
Special thanks to Celeste de Clario, Fergus Davidson, Benj Ramsay and Cornelius Wong.
Sylva Storm is an interdisciplinary artist working and living on Wurundjeri, Woi-wurrung land.
Their practice is interested in the body as a collective site. A personal archive visited by desire, collective and queer historiographies, humour and labour. Using their body as a consistent link, they work through mediums of performance, video and painting. They have completed a residency at Chateau Orquevaux in France as well as the SUPERMASSIVE mentorship with APHIDs. Recently they completed a residency with artist Amrita Hepi at her studio in Bangkok as well as exhibiting Jacuzzi at The Nicholas Building, Wet in New York at Revolu Gallery (USA), Two Way Dream at ATVB and Cruising at Blindside ARI.
Away From Me
I guess this is some heavy work, a great mass of art I made while doing the heavy lifting. The work is finished now, but the heavy lifting is what living feels like, though sometimes it can feel like flying instead. This work is about some hard shit, but it’s really mainly about love.
It is about the desire to tend to and locate something across myself, to tend to something in us.
This body of work tracks its way out of painting, into performance and then video. This body of work anchored me across four studios: it crossed the Nullarbor and came home, it tracked through a heartbreak, five house moves, the messy complexity of care, and a new love. It bore witness to a whole pile of hard and beautiful, and pulled me up by my socks over and over.
This work lodges bridges between the personal and theoretical to understand the collective possibilities in making and performing. These works excavated my body and a collective body’s relationship to gender, performance, care, the closet, sex and death.
It is a series of love letters.
Special thanks to Celeste de Clario, Fergus Davidson, Benj Ramsay and Cornelius Wong.
Sylva Storm is an interdisciplinary artist working and living on Wurundjeri, Woi-wurrung land.
Their practice is interested in the body as a collective site. A personal archive visited by desire, collective and queer historiographies, humour and labour. Using their body as a consistent link, they work through mediums of performance, video and painting. They have completed a residency at Chateau Orquevaux in France as well as the SUPERMASSIVE mentorship with APHIDs. Recently they completed a residency with artist Amrita Hepi at her studio in Bangkok as well as exhibiting Jacuzzi at The Nicholas Building, Wet in New York at Revolu Gallery (USA), Two Way Dream at ATVB and Cruising at Blindside ARI.